Life On The River is my personal blog.
Life On the River is hosted at the RiverChurch.net domain, but is not an offical reflection of RiverChurch.net. LotR isn't an official reflection of anything except what I am thinking at the moment. It certainly isn't meant to speak for my local congregation or my denomination. Or my family, home town, country, or anything else.
In the future I am thinking of evolving my blogging efforts into multiple blogs w/ more specific focuses: political-social, devotional/discipleship, and church mission. But I have to get a whole lot more disciplined and make sure I can offer worthwhile content first. As it is, LotR already has a large gap in posts from a period when I was quite ill. But I'm doing some better now, thank you!
In case you are wondering, RiverChurch was the working name for a proposed church plant in Tecumseh, MI. Along the way our would-be "mother" church was side-tracked and when into decline. About the time we were going to start over and do a cold start, I became a temporary supply pastor for Morocco Church. That was slightly over four years ago, so you can say I've become their "real" pastor now.
I still have a dream of seeing a new church planted in Tecumseh. Whether it will be me or not, God hasn't clearly revealed this to me. Since our plans were put on hold a local church had a "split". It was somewhat unusual in that it's current pastor left rather than split the church. Yet the vast majority still "split", leaving the control, the name, and the building, with a handful of people who did not like the changes and growth happening. They then started a new church and asked the former pastor to return. Their name is New Song. They began as a church of 150 or so. And when it comes to ministry they seem to "get it". So maybe the church is already planted . . .
Meanwhile, the church that would have had a "mother-daughter" relationship with our plant went into decline, and then merged with our healthy and growing sister church in Blissfield, MI. The new church is called "Elem3NT Church" and is "multi-campus". Once they have finished relaunching the new merged church they have a desire to start additional campuses. Tecumseh is on their radar. So maybe that is the church plant . . . .
Meanwhile, I am seeding a vision for church planting and congregational (campus) planting at Morocco. Perhaps that will bear fruit and that will be the church plant - maybe in Tecumseh, maybe in Dundee, maybe elsewhere.
Time will tell what God is doing.
For the technical geeks. Since April 2006 it has been powered by ExpressionEngine. Prior to its current incarnation it was powered by WordPress. Perhaps someday I'll transfer the content from that database to this one. But I wouldn't hold your breath. :).